Deborah MacGuiness

Deborah MacGuiness was an American amateur paleontologist from Colorado.

Biography
Deborah MacGuiness was born in Colorado, and she became one of the United States' leading amateur paleontologists, studying dinosaurs and their fossils. During the 1890s, she applied to numerous universities, but none of them hired her due to their disagreements with her views on dinosaurs; most of them supported creationism instead. In 1899, she recruited Arthur Morgan to help her find fossils across the American West and mail their locations to her at her home in Firwood Rise, Colorado in exchange for a cash reward.